growing north

year 289 ac

it has been 3 months since father returned to the north with his bannermen, there were no significant losses in the battle except the boltons who lost half of their forces in the war because of a foolish mistake he made as general, I don't know the details but it was a large blunder but I don't necessarily feel bad considering what he is capable of at his best, him loosing numbers most certainly makes it easy for me, though one would wish for him to have died at battle if they were in my position but that is not the case for me. you see no matter what Roose Bolton is like he is still a man of a shrewd mind and good leadership skills the Bolton lands are also fairly large with underground resources which is iron, if obtained properly it can be used for making proper and better steel for swords and armor as such I cannot let roose Bolton die early for he still has his uses.

fathers return also bought many spoils from the war one of them were soldiers ironborn soldiers sent to the wall to serve their sentence at least a thousand of them, I also used my geass to subjugate them to be loyal to the north and uphold their vow as men of the black father also managed to get john legitimized while many saw it as an insult to my lady mother, she hardly had any problem with it. john snow now is john stark of Winterfell but he is last in the line of succession that means after all the children considering even rickon who will be born many years from now. there was one thing which baffled me and that was theon did come to Winterfell as a ward to my father, instead, he got sent to casterly rock to ward under tywin Lannister though that is good for me for he is of no use to me after all leaving 100 ships taken from the ironborn were sent to the north as a gift to father from the king to kickstart the navy. thinking of all this we decided to not wait and speed up our plans for the north in order to get that we as in me and my father came to the decision to make a small council similar to the one in kings landing, for this a few lords were called who were lord Rickard karstark, lady maige mormont, lord Roose Bolton, lord Rodric ryswell, lady Barbery Dustin, and lord Howland reed. they were told about the situation in the north and the threat from the great other as well which they considered to be a joke but when they went through the same drill mother father and everyone else went through they believed me after a quick discussion we came to the conclusion that we need a lot of production to bring fruition to what we have planned the plan was divided among all the lords and the ladies present at the time

lady Dustin: has fresh lands which can b used to farm similar to the lands under the control of the starks. she will use those lands for planting vegetables which are good to be produced in the cold of the north. we will also produce glass and support the manufacture of vegetables and medicinal plants which require strict enviroment.

lord Bolton: has vast lands with iron ores in them he will mine and smelt them into swords and armor which will be brought by the starks they can use the money obtained to bring in new people and starts farms of their own and renovate castles and other things

lord Ryswell: has no immediate work of large magnitudes but they are famed to breed the best horses in the north so they must focus on that once farming has reached a certain point they can expand the number of horses who will be brought by the starks as well

lady mormont: is the commander of the bear islands it will become the ideal spot to make the northern navy which will be much larger and stronger fitted with cannons, these fleets will, later on, be stationed at sea dragon point and crape Kraken, we intend for crape Kraken to become a city with trade while sea dragon point will be strictly a militaristic port

lord karstark: holds karhold and they have large coal deposits they are to mine them as ammunition for the cannons and to make a small training camp to train special forces who will be operating these cannons and do research on them

lord howland reed: had no big work his only work was to gruelly train more soldiers and make them a proper shadow guard to protect the passage to the north

house stark will start maintaining a standing army of at least 20000 soldiers which will work under the northern banner and my father will be the commander in chief as the lord paramount. these numbers can rise and the lords can maintain their own forces as well if they want or contribute everything here. once these projects are done we will be able to bring in more and increase trade once that is done to make travel faster the plan to make a large canal will be carried forward, it was completely understood that the personnel profits of the houses involved will come a lot later when more taxes come for now they are doing their duties as nobles which is to protect their people.

moreover, mother got pregnant again I was quite happy to know that arya will be born soon, what came as a surprise was that she carried twins, I was not prepared for that but kanzaki examined her herself there was no doubt that I was going to have one more brother or sister than I anticipated also I and Robb and john turned 6 and father want us to learn archery now as the first forms of self-defense. I also summoned another character which was treyni a dryad from that slime anime again you may not know but a dryad is a magical existence who can do elemental magic, the reason I summoned her was so that she could help to energize the farming lands which will improve our yield.

2 years later 291ac

Winterfell north

it has been two years since we kickstarted our projects and it has come a long way in fact much of the north has changed, but first, let's talk about my family me Robb and john are 8 now and are starting with swordsmanship lessons with Geralt, Sansa is 5 now and her geass manifested as well what she achieved was the geass of rolo according to which she can paralyze a man for 1 minute in a small radius and take away their sense of time. I soon came to realize that Sansa was once gain becoming gullible much like in the books and the tv so I discussed with mother and father and we came to a decision that her stories of knights and wimping princesses will be turned into history lessons and she will also learn the way of the sword or any weapon of her choice for her own good. leaving her three new inclusions came to the family which were Arya and her twin brother Hadrian both of them are 2 years old and very energetic and naughty also bran is born he 1 year old now and do what babies do cry and shit and do baby things father especially plays with all the 3 of them in regular bases.

Winterfell also went through many changes, a new medical tower was built which is mainly a hospital. the guardhouses were expanded and so were the stables along with the armory and the southern side was expanded to make a new jousting arena and the kitchen, a full-blown military kitchen was made for the soldiers a new training came north of Winterfell was made as well to train the soldiers. the broken tower was reconstructed and was much larger than before it made into a large watchtower and said to be used as a granary for Winterfell. it was also the headquarters of the phantoms a group of spies and assassins made by me headed by souei who were now all over the north and dealt with mostly destroying spies of foreign forces in the north. the first keep was also renovated as the new barracks to house new soldiers who came from essos they were mainly slaves but they were brought by paying heavy prices which were magically returned to our coffers, as soon as these soldiers landed on the lands of the north they were freed and asked if they will serve the starks or not, very surprisingly they all complied to serve us. the total soldiers in Winterfell now are now 15000 including the previous 5000. the winter guard also rose in number to a thousand knights. The number of military personnel in Winterfell now goes as

1000 knights( winter guards)

7000 spearmen

5000 swordsmen ( 2000 cavalry)

3000 archers

2000 horses

leaving these the projects have come a long way the Boltons have been making a load of armors and are providing them to the starks and selling them to the south as well at certain points, and are in menial trade with the free cities as well mostly slavers who need soldiers they have also been providing light armor to the crannogmen as well along with arrows and other essential items. the plan of farming by the Dustins as well worked marvelously we now only buy half the amount of the food we use to buy from the reach before that as helped us a lot financially as no we have surplus food we were also able to focus on Ryswell horses they have made great accomplishments in that sphere as well. the new northern fleet at sea dragon point is also coming along smoothly we already have 150 ships with loaded cannons and personnel to maintain them which came from the influx of a lot of people from the south who migrated to the north it is astounding how many orphans or young lads with no family live down south. the northern population before was 2million people not it is at 3 and a half million, who have found life or job in farms or in various towns around the north some of those towns are winter town outside of Winterfell, boltown because of the massive iron mining in the Bolton lands, a small number in torhens square and at least 100000 in white harbor making it the most populous city in the north they also bring 10000 soldiers for war when called for, house manderly is also the wealthiest among most northern houses. they are also a part of the council and are making investments to make a naval point at widows watch. one interesting thing was the rise of house Forreste, a sit stands house white hill was unhappy with the newfound riches of house Forreste and launched a sneak attack on them which failed and got all the sons killed except the daughter who is now married to the eldest son of house Forreste and their lands granted to house Forreste. who are now an independent house. the coal mining of the karstarks is also going well. house Glenmore has also adopted farming in their lands much like the dustins, which has given rise to a few villages as well, the flints also seem to be interested in partaking in these activities and are writing letters about such matters to my father. all of this boomed in taxes the stark coffers have at least 7 million gold coins annually by taxes, not including the money from the glass and diamond business

the Norths military strength had also risen which allowed us to keep a 30000 strong standing army in a training spot a few miles f Winterfell while its soldiers and generals are from all over the north, my geass ensured that as many as 1 quate of them are staunchly loyal to the starks and brainwashing techniques are being used to make the rest as well. the total military strength of the north now is

stark army: 15000

northern army: 30000

Manderley army: 10000

boltons army: 6000

karstarks army: 2000

umber army: 2000

mormonts army: 1000 + 3000 ( navy)

Dustin army: 3000

Ryswell army: 4000

grand total: 76000

the houses above are the only ones who maintain a standing army mostly because they are a part of the great plan under house stark